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Poetry Speaks: Hear Great Poets Read Their Work from Tennyson to Plath [with 3 CDs]
Poetry Speaks features the work of the most influential writers in modern poetry-written and performed-from 1892 to 1997. This book combines their most significant poems in print with the authors themselves reading their poetry on audio CD. Poets range from Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Walt Whitman, T.S. Eliot and Dorothy Parker to Langston Hughes, Allen Ginsberg, Sylvia Plath a...more
Hardcover, 352 pages
Published
October 1st 2001
by Sourcebooks Mediafusion
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Vital if for no other reason than the fact that there are so many amazing poets reading their work in what are often rare, ancient, crackly and precious recordings.
Most of this stuff is widely available on record, of course, but it's pretty comprehensive and wide-ranging.
There's nothing quite like hearing the poet read their own work aloud, either, and there's nothing better than the thrill that you get when you hear the way their voice shivers or cracks or trembles when they read a particu...more
You know how you go to a new restaurant and ALL the appetizers sound delicious and you can't decide which to try, so you order the sampler platter and it's really good for what it is? Some of the poets leave you ravenous for more, and others make you wish you'd never taken a bite of them... but at least now you know. That's what this book is - an introduction to poetry. Although some of the earlier recordings (ie Tennyson) are of horrible audio quality, it's electrifying to hear their garbled vo...more
I bought this book because I thought it was an AMAZING idea and I wasn't disappointed. I was teaching at the time, and there is nothing more powerful to students than hearing a Langston Hughes poem they've heard a hundred times actually read by its writer. Any time they came across a poem ANYWHERE in their lives, my students would come back and ask me whether there was anything by the poet on the CDs. Wonderful idea, very well executed.
This was like a poetry immersion class and I wanted to retry the classic poets and poems and hear their voices reading their poems. Nothing inspired me like a Mary Oliver poem, none even came close. But it was interesting... The first CD was missing so I am disappointed I missed Walk Whitman.
In honor of National Poetry Month I downloaded all 3 CDs... it's trippy to try and listen to Tennyson or some of the early recordings but it sends chills up my spine just the same. And I finally found that one poem from Poetry 101!! It's by Roethke.
Got about halfway through this and wanted a break. It's dense and really interesting but Maxine Kumin's "Where I Live" has been calling me from the shelf at the library for weeks now. Oh, and the audio is not what I would call an enhancement--more often than not the readings are weird or disturbing due to either poor quality (for the very earliest recordings, obviously) or to the "performance" of the poet him/herself.
What I liked about this, I really liked, what I did not, I really did not.
It did contain some rare and interesting audio .
It did contain some rare and interesting audio .
Hearing these famous works of poetry in the poets' own voices is incredible.
This book is ridiculously large. It's meant to adorn your coffee table and I guess that's okay. You'll look smart. The CDs are the thing though. "We think of poetry as words on a page. But it is in the poet's own voice - in the rhythms, inflections and intonations - where the poem comes alive and the words take on the power and passion of the poet."
This got some press when released in 2001. Although the book is hefty and well-designed, it is the three audio cds with the artists reading their own works that make it worth the investment. Includes audio of Whitman, Pound, Yeats, Hughes, Plath, Sexton, and many others. Some of the voices, like OHara, strike you and some, like Auden, disappoint.
As poetry is meant to be heard, this anthology is music to your ears! Listen and experience poetry read aloud by the author. Some of the old and crackly recordings are a little creepy (like Alfred, Lord Tennyson), but some others allow you to experience your favorite poem the way it was meant to be ingested.
I love this anthology because it comes with three CD's that have recordings of the different poets reading the poems featured in the text. The selection of poetry is good, and the recordings questioned my previous interpretations of the poetry. It's a refreshing and invigorating look at the classics.
Worth 4 stars because you DO actually get to hear the pieces read by the poets themselves.
the 5th star is for Walt Whitman's voice being available as well.
It's haunting to think you're hearing his voice reading to you from as far back as 1860-something.
the 5th star is for Walt Whitman's voice being available as well.
It's haunting to think you're hearing his voice reading to you from as far back as 1860-something.
I am not a fan of poetry.
but I loved this book for hearing the poets speak there own words made me love poetry.
As one author put it " you can learn to like something by watching someone else love it."
that is my similar reaction to this book
but I loved this book for hearing the poets speak there own words made me love poetry.
As one author put it " you can learn to like something by watching someone else love it."
that is my similar reaction to this book
ok.....the really awesome part of this book, aside from the fact that it containes some really calssic poems, is that it also comes with a cd with the poems read. i've taught poetry before, and this has come in really handy.
Again, it's poetry. Very neat to hear Whitman speak. Also Wiliam Carlos Williams reads "The Red Wheelbarrow" for some reason thats one of the only poems I can remember from school, but I love it.
I really want to love this book more than I do. The concept is great--poems read by the poets--but I still wander away from it every time I try to listen. Maybe I'm just a philistine.
It is incredible to actually hear people like Robert Frost, Sylvia Plath, even Walt Whitman read their own poetry. This book/cd set is something to experience
Indispensable for teachers of English. It is so powerful for students to hear the poets read their own works.
Very cool book. The selection is good, and it is interesting to hear the poems read by their authors.
Kind of too coffee-table for my tastes, but it comes with 3 CDs of readings, from Tennyson to Plath.
Nov 24, 2007
Kate
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3 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
people who like dead poets
Shelves:
poetry
A really fun multi-media experience, but only dead poets. Bummer man.
Useful for teaching, but I couldn't appreciate it for recreational enjoyment.
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